Aristotle's life and achievements

Aristotle was a famous Greek philosopher and scientist that lived from 384 to 322 BC. He is ranked with Socrates and Plato to be one of the most famous philosophers. Aristotle was born at Stagira, in Macedonia, as the son of a physician to the royal court. At the age of 17, he went to Athens to study at Plato's Academy. He remained there for about 20 years, as a student and then as a teacher. When Plato dies …

…Darwin modified the doctrine of Aristotle's species theory in the 19th century. In the 20th century, a new appreciation has developed of Aristotle's method and it's relevance to education, literary criticism, the analysis of human action, and political analysis. Not only the discipline of zoology, but also the world of learning as a whole, seem to amply justify Darwin's remark that the intellectual heroes of his own time "were mere schoolboys compared to old Aristotle."